There used to be a saying at the Buffalo News: People only left to go to the New York Times, the Washington Post or the cemetery. Times have changed.

The panelists at a February 27 panel discusion about whistleblowing hosted by the Oxford Union. Left to right: internet and human rights activist Heather Marsh; moderator Laali Vadlamani; former US intelligence operative and administrator David Shedd, at whose behest the Oxford Union has refused to publish video of the conversation; and the third panelist, Ewan MacAskill of the Guardian newspaper. Photo courtesy of the Oxford Union.